Posted in France, Quilt Design, Quilts and Quilting on 10 June, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Les Services culturels de l’Ambassade des Etats-Unis d’Amerique en France
présentent
Un Patchwork de Cultures
Une exposition itinérante de la Louisane vers la France
These are from the “American” Exhibition.
There are more of the “24″ Expo which I’ll post over the coming days. Some fantastic scrap quilts and houses too. The appliqué on some of them is just ………………………………….
Posted in Quilt Design, tagged Jeanne Williamson, The Uncommon Quilter on 30 October, 2007 | 4 Comments »
In 1999 Jeanne Williamson decided to make one small quilt every week for a year, made exclusively from found objects. 7 years later she had 365 small art quilts, 52 of which are featured in The Uncommon Quilter .
I was a bit dubious about this book at first, but was soon hooked. They [...]
Posted in Quilt Design, WiP Wednesday on 3 October, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Bonjour or bon soir as the case may be.
You know I said I wasn’t going to show you the ongoing progress of the latest quilt. Well, I decided to show it today as I’ve got a bit of a problem.
Just a small one you understand. Nothing drastic. I mean it is surmountable [...]
Posted in Quilt Design on 21 September, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I’m in the process of designing a permanent design wall.
The white sheet held up by will power over the cookery book cupboard is ok temporarily, but it keeps on falling down and when I need to get to the books I can’t!
We’ve got lots of old cork tiles lying about the place and I thought [...]
Posted in Fabric, No Fabric Diet, Quilt Design on 28 August, 2007 | 6 Comments »
1st September is now marked on the calendar with a No More Fabric warning, especially after this find at the
Vide Grenier at Creyssac on Sunday.
It must be about 3 metres long and the price was so ridiculously cheap I couldn’t resist it.
A thunderstorm is brewing up but before I log out how about this [...]
Posted in My Quilts, Quilt Design on 22 May, 2007 | 8 Comments »
I’ve dropped my precious camera! We took it into the SAV at Auchan yesterday who said (with a lovely smile) that it is cheaper to get a new one than get this one repaired (I promptly burst into tears). So I am sitting here trying to get some sense out of HP Support, [...]
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